How to find Real Love!
How to find Real Love!
Saroj Kumar Apat, Missionary, AP
“ The world is at your fingertips.” It ' s an expression you ' ve heard many times that recently has taken on a more literal meaning. According to statistics mobile apps downloads exceeded 269 billion this year. But the thing that we can never get by pressing a key even in the Android market is, ' Real Love '.
To be genuine and lasting, love must be based on a more enduring foundation than mere physical attraction or fleshly gratification. It must include an unselfish desire to protect and help and make someone else happy. It must also involve admiration for the other person ' s finer qualities. A person can be in love with their partner ' s mind, spirit and sentiments all of which have little or nothing to do with physical beauty. Real love is a spiritual thing: it ' s not merely physical. It ' s mostly manifested in mental companionship and compatibility, the likes and dislikes and habits that the two people have in common.“ Love is sometimes seeking the liveliness of the spirit, the fascination of the mind, the irresistibility of the heart and the magnanimity of the soul.”
True happiness comes not in your personal pursuit of selfish pleasure and satisfaction, but in finding God and giving His love and life to others, and bringing them happiness. Then happiness will pursue and overtake and overwhelm you, personally, without you even seeking it for yourself. God didn ' t say we wouldn ' t or shouldn ' t need or desire or enjoy the things of this life, but He admonishes us not to have an inordinate love for them to the point that we put these things before the even greater needs of our spirit.
That ' s the secret: Look for someone to make
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them happy, and that happiness will find you!“ He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.” Those are God ' s laws of the spirit and are just as definite as the laws of physics, such as the law of gravity. The law of love is unselfish love for God and others. If you will obey that law and give the love that is God ' s and others ' due, you will also receive love.“ For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
Life, liberty, and the giving of happiness to others- these are things that only God can give and the only things that will ever satisfy your spirit. So if you want to be happy and make someone else truly happy, seek the satisfaction of the spirit that can be found only in God and His love!
GOD CREATED US with the need to love and be loved. He alone can satisfy the deepest yearning of every human soul for the total love and complete understanding. The things of this earth can satisfy the body, but only God and His eternal love can ever fill that aching spiritual void in our hearts that He created for Himself. The human spirit can never be completely satisfied with anything less than utter union with the great and loving Spirit who created it.
“ God is love.” He is the very Spirit of love, true love, everlasting love, real love, genuine love that never ends from a lover who never leaves, the Lover of all lovers. He is pictured in His son, Jesus, who came out of love and lived in love and died for love that we might love and love forever.“ But anyone who does not love does not know God for God is love”( 1John 4:8).
“ This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins”( 1 John 4:9). His love for you is unconditional. No matter how weak or disheartened you may feel right now, or how disappointed you
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